Books in the Gender, Bodies and Transformation series

Grounded in feminist and queer methods, this book offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment, exploring the means by which design-tactics might affect the ways in which women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit, occupy and move through urban space.

This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to the emergence of trans lives and discourses.

The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers' bodies. Proposing a shift away from an understanding of spectatorship as being constituted by acts of the mind, this book favours a theorization of relations between bodies and images as visceral.

This book represents the vanguard of new work in the rapidly growing arena of Trans Studies. Thematically organised, it brings together studies from an international, cross-disciplinary range of contributors to address a range of questions pertinent to the emergence of trans lives and discourses.

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts 'derby grrrls' are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure, pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new, globalized women's sport and an everyday creative leisure space.

Grounded in feminist and queer methods, this book offers unique interdisciplinary approaches to understanding gendered spatial equity in the urban environment, exploring the means by which design-tactics might affect the ways in which women and people of diverse gender and sexual identity inhabit, occupy and move through urban space.